The Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart Cummings by Les Carlyon

The Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart Cummings by Les Carlyon

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781742610511
Author: Les Carlyon
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2011
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352 pages
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at tail. Previous owner has inscribed blank preliminary page, leaving a couple of smudge marks on golden paper. Dust jacket has creasing at top and tail. Spine dust jacket has been reinforced with book tape. Binding is still very good.

In the world of horse racing, Bart Cummings is the master. His astonishing tally of twelve Melbourne Cup wins arguably makes him the greatest trainer in Australia's history and, by statistical measures, as freakish as Bradman.

His laconic wit and indifference to the trappings of wealth and fame have seen him recognised as a national treasure in his own lifetime. He is one of Australia's great characters.

As Les Carylon writes, he simply isn't like anyone else. Cummings doesn't come into it: to everyone, he's just Bart. Carlyon is Australia's most revered observer of racing. For close to forty years he has known Bart and chronicled his remarkable career.

Now, in The Master, Carlyon gives us a portrait of the man, his horses and his world away from the glamour of the big race days. It shows us a Bart few have seen before. Intimate, personal, informed and captivating. The Master is loaded with stories and characters that bring racing to life and reveal much of his character and the modus operandi of Bart.

Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and paintings, The Master is a sparkling piece of storytelling by one of Australia's most successful and acclaimed writers. (book flap)

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